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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-10
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN

Are born into the world every day with some ecze-
matous affection, such as milk crust scall head,
scuf or dandruf, sure to develop into an agoniz
ing eczema, the itching, burning and disiguration
OF which make life prolonged torture unless
properly treated.
A warm bath with Cuticura Soap an EXQUISITE
skin beautifer. end single application of Cuticu-
ra, the great skin cure, with little Cuticura Re
solvent, the new blood purifier. is often sufficient
TO arrest the progress of the disease and point to
a speedy and permanent cure.
Hence, no mother who loves her children, who
takes pride in their beauty, purity and health and
in bestowfng upon them child's gr, Attest inherit
ance-a skin without blemish and q body nour-
ished by pure blood-should fail to make trial OF
the Cuticura Remedies.
Sold everywhere Price: CuTIcURA, SO cents
CUTIcURA SOAP rs cents; CUTcURA REsoLvENT,
81. Prepared by PorTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL
Co., Boston. Mass
Send for How to Cure Skin Diseases"
81 pages. so lllu trations and 100 testimonials,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-10
RUPTURE. :;:'::!:', :: ;::::: $ = e.:
II ~ u u ~ II j. no cure nnle.s per.

fectly fitted. For this, an expert adjuster,s ser
| vices valG hle or. more so, than he Truss
Dr. Parker with the Retentive Truss, offers Sl0p
| il case of failure. Send for Treat'se free. Dr..
A II. Parker. Pres. Trnss Co. 55 State street,
| Chicago. sept. 2tlm
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-10

The Perils of Using Cheap and Pasty
Toilet Soaps--Disastrous Effects on the
Wash Room.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Feculiarities of a Pavement.

The city fathers of Steubenville, Ohio,
concluded to lay a new pavement two
years ago, and they just dug one foot be-
low the surface of the street, put in four
inches of sand, four inches of gravel and
then set fOur-inCh friedrich on edge
Then they covered the top with sand for
a time, and now they have the finest
pavement in the world. This is on the
main street of Steubenville, and after two
years use shows no perceptibIe wear
at ALL
As to its advantages. It is almost en-
tirely noiseless. Ice doesn't adhere to it
in winter time at all 1t can be taken I'D
and repaired without any trouble.
Horses slip on Belgian blocks and on
ssff1ihialt, hut on this no matter how WEI
the weather may be, they will retain a
firm footing. There is no OBJ lection what
ever to be raised against this style of
pavement. The merits of it are beauty,
durability, noselessness, cheapness and
safety in driving. 1t posse sses every eIe-
ment that good pavement should have.
1t is absolutely perfect.-New York Trib-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
NYnman,. DO 1trinnd

A haiTpin is woman's best friend. 1t fits
a multiplicity Of uses, and she is never with
out one. If her hair is shor't you cen de
pend upon it that in recess IF her purse OF
pocket of her reticule you will find the
hairpin. If she buttons her shoes she uses
her hairpin, and who ever saw a woman
button her gloves with any thing else9 If
her head itches does she scratch il with her
fingerl Nonsens9l She whips out harpin
and relieves herself Suppose a nickel has
dropped between the bars. of the wooden
foot CRATE in the street car. Does she soil
her fingers as a nan would, and then not
get its Certainly not Out comes the hair
pin ark the coin is hfte1 out without
trouble
If her shaw.pin is lost, where so gooi a
substitute as the hairpin7 If she eats nut
does she take a nutpick? Most assurenly
not The hairpin again. 1t is with the
ha1rpln that she rips open the uncut leaves
OF book or m1gaZ.ne; it is hairpiu with
which she marks her progress in her faVorite
book; If a trunk key is mi sing a hairpin
opens the refractory lock as neatly as
a burglars skeleton key would with it she
cIeanses her finger nails and, if it IS &
clean one, even picks her teeth And ths
feats of hair securing that she will make a
simple bowlegged hairpin accomplish nearly
surpasses the belief of man. Altogether, it
deserves to be classed among the great in
ventions OF the world, and the grave OF the
original man who created the first one could
have no prouder epitaph than this: "Ths
IS the kind of a hairpin he was Chicago
News
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
A Shot that siIenced Him.

Vi Mr.. Somerby, VINO was counsel for the
defense in the notorious Alley murder case,
the following is told: 1t may be remarked
for the benefit of those who do not remem-
TER that cause celebre, that the body of the
murdered man was found brutality hacked
to pieces and slowed into a barrel which was
discovered floating in the harbor. Soon
after the conclusion OF che case Mr.. Som
erby, who had worked very hard in it, went
to the Isle of Shoals for rest, and while there
sat smoking on the hotel piazza one evening,
III company with other guests of the house
only slightly known to him One Of the lat
ter, a man of the sort gifted by nature with
the faculty Of making awkward speeches,
suddenly turned to the lawyer and said:
I'VE have all had a good deal of curl
osity, Mr.. Somerby, about the Alley case.
and l wish you would tell us frankly pre-
c.sely what you think is the truth of the
whOe matter"
Il think" Mr.. Someroy returned, gravely,
regarding the other with an air of the ut
most candor, II think that it was clearly and
ul nistakably case Of suicide.
ne questioner began to frame inquiry
b. v a suicide could diSmember his remains
/ bestow them in a barrel, when Il shout
laughter gave him dim hint that h had
De Il snubbed, and the converse ton on the
ley case came to an abrupt conclusion
b evidence Journal
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Usefulness of the Lemon.

Lemons are one of the most useful
fruits in our domestic economy The
juice of half lemon in a glass of water,
without sugar, will frequently cure a sick
headache. If the hands be stained, there
is nothing that will remove the stain bet
ter than lemon or a lemon and salt
After the juice has been squeezed from
the lemon the refuse can be used for this
purpose. Lemon juice is also very good
remedy for rheumatism and the so-called
biliousness of spring. In the latter case
the juice should be taken before break
fast. The pulp may be also eaten, avoid
ing every particle of skin. Lemon juice
and sugar, mixed very thick, is useful to
relieve coughs and sore threats. 1t must
be very acid as well as sweet AS drink
lemonade is not only a luxury, but ex-
Ceedingly wholesome 1t is a good tenn
perance drink. Hot lemonade in winter
will break up cold if taken at the start.
Cool lemonade in summer will refresh
one who is tired and thirsty. As har-
vest drink it has no equal There is no
danger in taking too much, and it never
produces drunkenness and disease. Her
aid of Health.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Fall of "A Gifted Man.

Ten years ago knew young man of
unusual brightness who had literary in
clinations, with talent to uphold them.
In common with all his friends hailed
him as a hero. He wrote poetry with
glibness and one string of verses that he
dedicated to Whittier brought from the
Quaker poet a letter that was not of a for
NAL type at all. He showed his apprecia-
ton of the young mans talent by asking
that "other specimens of Versification" be
sent him. The result was prolonged cor
respOndence, and, if 1 mistake not, the
younger poet went one summer up into
New England as Mr.. Writers guest.
My friend had one popularity. His themes
were always religious. mo true poet" he
said to me once, "can ever write what he
does not feel and I am the chosen poet of
the church" The other day l CHANGED
upon man who has known him since he
drifted out of my sight; and my faith in
the general goodness of things was shat
tered. The young man to whom Whittier
took the strong fancy, the Chosen poet of
the church" is in jail A Philadelphia
judge has sent him up for year for beat
ing his wife-"Halston" in New York
Times
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01

The Bibles printed III Chicago have three
blank pages for divorces and as many for
elopeincnts. The blank pages are so arranged
that the newspaper articles on the family
topics cal be pasted in by the colunn.-Texas
Siftings
Mercy on me, Mary, where have.you been!
The back Of your dress is covered with dust.
You have not been sitting on the front steps,
F3lopel' "No. ma, I couldn't ~ct the piano
stool p =.oIZh so put the big Bible GA
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
THREE OAILIEs OF NEW YoPK,
Three Men of Strong Individuality a
JOurnaIists-Expandi News Items.

Three Men of Strong Individuality as
JournaIists-Expa nding News Items.
The three great daiIIes in New York
represented three great men, who IN diff
ferent ways had each impressed his per
sonality upon his journal in an almost
equal degree. Horace Greeley, James
Gordon Bennett and Henry j. Raymond.
Always there is found some one man, or
woman, behind anything which becomes
a power: the gradual realization of this
fact makes one a believer in a God-only
a supreme intelligence could have devel-
oped, could maintain the order of the uni
verse. The individuality of these men
impressed itself vitality upon their papers,
and the public, who followed their lead
ership. James Gordon Bennett reDre-
sented the enterprise and foresight of
the immediate future Horace Greeley its
advanced thought and unselfish spirit,
Henry j. Raymond its policy and states
man craft. Of the three Mr.. Raymond
had the truest journalistic instinct, and
more Of the formative spirit, but Mr..
Bennett was supplemented by an inteli-
gent man. and naturally skillful journal
ist, Mr.. Frederick Hudson, who made
The New York Herald a newspaper-the
first one this country, or any other, had
ever seen.
1uo uISU newspapers sIltIA .IliOhEoh
they were filed their miniature pages
with moral aphorisms and pious senti-
ments The news was crowded in cor
ner, briefly summarized, or neglected al
together, unless it found its way in the
form of an advertisement Mr.. Hudson
recognized the value of news. The Herald
was poor, and cOuld not afford to pay,
nor was there any cable or telegraph lines
to transmit it. Philadelphia was more
important port of entry in those early
days than New York, but the
Philadelphia papers, like those of
New York, recoE,fed the arrival
of a vessel from England, and the inter
esting news it brought, in three lines,
often out of sight, and without editorial
reference. Mr.. Hudson made g business
Of disinterring these intems simplifying
them, and spreading them out in double
lead making a vast number of head
lines, in every variety of big type, until
the despised item became a column,
which excited the attention and talk OF
the city, and was perhaps copied back,
headlines and all, into the paper from
which it had been originally obtained; its
editors being blissfuily unconscious of
the theft and giving the credit to the New
York journal.
Let me here say The Herald would
never have lived and become a power,
had Mr. Bennett been only, or chiefly, the
mean, unscrupuIOus man he has been 80
often described. In his way he was con-
scientiOus, ambitious only for his paper
and his sOn-to found a name and q
paper that would live. He was illiterate
but shreWd and would do anything fof
any one who had the wit to attack him
on the weak side.-Se nnie June.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
The Need of Liberal Education.

The Need of a Liberal Education.
Il am soliciting funds said the stranger,
9rvously buttOning his coat across the pace
here his necktie ought to show, "for a cause
nat appeals at once to the pride and the
cart OF every true American l am obtain
lg subscriptions for the completion of the
'artholdi pedestal, and" "Ihe Bartholdi
edestal!" exclaimed the astonished mer-
G hant, why, it's up" Ups" queried the
isitor, uncertainty. CUP" replied the mer-
liant; completed last week; statue I'M
-eiled and dedicated with all pomp and
lory; speeches by Edward Everett, S. S.
'rentiss, William Seward and all sorts of
eople. You've been so absorbed in your
1ork you haven't had time te read the
apers, and you've missed the show" The
ranger bashfully bao ked himself out and
ve minutes later found him investing in
ack numbers at a news stand. He grew
loughtful as he read, and finally spoke to
ranger. dead, replied the citizen, "all
Of 'em dead, ages ago" The needy one cast
his papers on the ground 81 don't mind
oein' chaffed," he said, bitterly, "but 1 do
ate liar y Bur lette in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Th,aauds Like Him.

She Tin the morning deaT, I y -i 81,
you'd stop at JOhnson's on your way to the
office aud pay my bill for plants and seeds.
It's just So
Hs-Five dollars! Strikes me that's a
good deal to lay out for that sort of thing
I should think half as much would have
been amply sufficient.
She lin the evening" - Well, Tom did
you pay that bills
He-No, 1 didn't Fact is, going down
town met Bob Barr, and bet him a V that
his head was smaller than mine I lost
his hat came down TO my ears-and when
paid him l found myself dead broke. You'll
have to save that money out of your next
months allowance for housekeeping -Har-
per's Bazaar.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Made a Match of Ii.

,re's little bit of fun from the NV
Sun: Visitor (at Castle Garden Are
al lose immigrants Norwegians' Official
ir. \ few of them are Swe !enborgians
is recalls a story told by a Troy clergy
ma. A certain man who was a follower of
Sea enborg had for a wife a very excellent
LADY of orthodox church affiliations She
came to the minister one day in great tribu-
Iation owing to the discovery that her hus-
bands religious views were a little off color,
from her own point of view. She cited her
own idelity to her creed and then Ell culated:
"To think that 1 have gone and married a
SD tzenb.rg -I.!"-Troy Times
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Stranoar Than Fiction.

Lemme SCI if my fa.her hadn't died bacl
in 80 he'd be hundred an four this c. II:
min sIrnE.
Whex! How come IA n of i n V tai
ter die,-Lifa
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Don't Care a. Fig >,

The fig tree has Away been associated
with the vine as an emblem of peace and
plenty. A young lady asks why the fruit
is then counted as comparatively worth
less in the common expression, II don't
care fig" for the object described This
is figo or f1cO, not fruit, but FLIP or
snap of the fingers. The Italian far Ie
fiche-to snap the fingers-gives the key
to the contemptuous expression so often
used.-Exchange.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
A SOueaky Machine,

First Old Farmer Seeing the sighls).-
Some kind of patent churn he's a-showin'
up, l reckon.
Second Old Farmer-Cracky, how s, does
50, eak! l say, mister, ye better lie her up;
sb IL run smoother.-Lfe.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01

Sam JONES, speaking of CONVERTING
hard-Aearted newspaper men, says he
couldn't touch a Chicago reporter with a
ten-toot pole. He ought to have tried ten
Cent cigar. w ashington Critic.
Since the president has returned to the
"hlte House with his bride his NAL is
loaded down with circulars expatiating on
CHe uierlts Oh certain roach exterminators.
moth destroyers, soap warranted to remove
grease @, heir iF Ho1er= baby coaches
preseFYlag jlrs and 2.hsr a.as 30 Bou Sc
- Ling ACg3 stosB Eo4al&
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-01
Trials of a Landlord.

First Tourist Ito summer hotel land ord)-
! , you allow dogs in the house?
Landlord (emphatically)-NO sir.
First Tourist-Then must go somewhere
Use. My wife has got dog.
Second Tourist Ito same landlord)-Do
you allow dogs in the housel
LandlOrd-O1, yes, sir.
Second Tourist-Then 1 must go some
where else. My wife can't bear dogs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-28
A Scene in BOrneO.

Had to introduce my readers to the
mast un-Europcan scene | know OF, /
think l should ask him to take seat
witI me in native canoe and paddle
up the graceful windings of the Meim-
bun river. At its mouth the huts, built
on scaweed-covcred piles, form each a
separate island. The floors are raised
bare threct feet above the level of the
water, and one needs not better evidence
of the fact that here at least VIC are IN
stormless seas. On the palm-stem plat
forms in front of the entrance the na-
tives squat, while around are playing
half dozen naked little Cupids, now
plunging into the water, now padding
races in miniature canoes. A little fur
ther and We enter the river, whose water
is so clear and pure and bri ght that one
longs to tumble in, clothes and all.
Close to the bank lies the market place,
a picturesque jumble of ponies, ripe
bananas, red sarongs, palm leaf stalls,
and flashing spears. Beyond, the sea-
going praus are hauled up on shore,
their unwieldy stcrns mass of quaint
carving. Then through tiny reach
bordered by the Nipa palm, whose
graceful fronds, thirty or forty feet in
length, spring directly from the stream,
and we find ourselves in sort of upper
town, where the houses arc built with
seeming indifference either in or out of
the water. The place is the absolute
perfection of beauty and untidiness.
overhead the eye rests on Il wealth of
vcrdure-bamboo, banana, DURAN, jack
fruit. and the arrowy betel palm, with
its golden egglikc nuts. In these happy
climes mans needs grow at his very
door. Cold and hunger, misery and
want, are words without meaning.
Civilization is far of indeed, and for the
moment, at least, we have no desire for
it. Cruise of the Murctesa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-28

were attacked. Tho quarantine was
limited to this district, and the eggs,
Larvae and beetles were gathered under
the strictest supervision. Then the soil
was removed from about the plants, be.
ing carefully searched for larvae and
chrysalides. The plants and roots were
then carefully gathered and placed in a
pit about four feet deep in layers four
inches thick, each layer being thoroughly
saturated with raw benzine oil, which, in
a short time, destroyed the plants and
any beetles adhering to them.
After piling up FIVE such layers the pits
were completely covered with earth.
The infested fields were then pfowed
ten or twelve inches deep, careful men
following each plow and collecting any
Larvae, chysalides or beetles that were
turned up. This plan was followed
when the land was narrowed, and the
narrowing was repeated. After all this
search the land was saturated with raw
benzine oil at the rate of 165 pounds to
forty-seven square feet, and the fields
were then shut up. The fields will not
be cultivated next year, but will be strict
ly examined from time to time, small
groups of potatoes being planted to ut.
tract whatever insect may survive. Raw
petroleum is equally as etficacious as the
other oil, and was used in some cases.
This is good example of the thorough
ness practiced in German farming.-Neu
York Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-28
An Alpine Lakelet.

In a little basin of the Alps, 100 feet
above sea-level, and five miles from the
end of the great Alctsch glacier, is the
unique little lake known as the Marjalcn
Sea. This is fed by mountain stream
lets, its waters being held back by the
ice of the great glacier itself. An Eng
lish eeologist mentions having seen 1t
in 1858 as a body of water 800 yards
wide and three times as long, with a
maximum depth of ninety-seven feet.
But the next day it had vanished. The
ice.dam had yielded sufficiently to allow
the pent-up water to escape beneath the
glacier and plunge into the valley be-
low, devastating the fields, and consider
ably raising the level of the Rhone.
These discharges take place at irregular
intervals, though reputed to occur every
seven years. The latest outbreak was in.
September last, since which it has been
proposed to lessen future damages by
providing an artificial outlet to reduce
the lakes capacity one-ha1f.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-28
RELIGIOUS READING.
Sorrow.

Sorrow.
Upon my lips she laid her touch divine,
And merry speech and careless laughter
died;
She fixed her melancholy eyes on mine
And would not be denied.
/ saw the west wind loose its cloudlets white,
In flock careering through the April sky;
could not sing, though JOY was ut its height.
For she stood silent by.
watched the lovely evening fade away
A mist was lightly drawn across the stars;
She broke my quiet dream-1 heard her say,
''Behold your prison bars!
Earth's gladness shall not satisfy your soul,
This beauty Of the world in which we live;
The crowning grace that sanctlhes the Wnole,
That alone can give"
heard and shrunk away from her afraid.
But still she held me and would still abide,
Youths bounding pulses slackened ano
With 1Ssysi; SISwIy chilling tide.
"Look thou beyond the evening sky" she
Beyond the changing splendors Of the
Accept tie pain, the WEAKNESS, the dread,
Accept and bid me stayr
turned and clasped her close with sudden
strength,
And slowly, surely, became aware
Within my arms Gods angel stood, at length,
White-robed and calm and fair
And now looked beyond the evening star,
Beyond the changing splendors Of the day,
Knowing the pain He sends more precious
far,
More beautiful than they.